Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against MeterUniversity of Arkansas Press, 1990 M01 1 - 340 páginas "Timothy Steele's excellent book is not a formalist manifesto but an even-handed scholarly account of the whole background of 'free verse' poetics". -- Richard Wilbur |
Contenido
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The Superior Art Verse and Prose and Modern Poetry | 67 |
1 Prose Seeding Order on the Model of Poetry | 70 |
2 The Shift from Fiction in Meter to Fiction in Prose | 79 |
3 Poetry Seeking Freedom on the Model of Prose | 93 |
3 From Organic Form to Free Verse | 190 |
4 The Rise of Music the Fall of Poetry | 201 |
5 Versification as Musical Form | 207 |
Sciences of Sentiment The Crisis of Experimental Poetry | 222 |
1 Progressive Science Regressive Poetry? | 226 |
Novelty Modern Verse and Science | 239 |
The Poet as Scientist | 250 |
Poetry as Fact or Formula | 258 |
The Reverses of Time The Origin and History of the Distinction between Verse and Poetry | 107 |
1 The Ancient Sources of the Modern Distinction | 110 |
2 The Renaissance Conflation of Aristotle Quintilian Plutarch and Servius | 129 |
3 The Modern Opposition of Verse and Poetry | 147 |
Free Verse and Aestheticism | 169 |
1 The Background of Aestheticism | 172 |
2 Autonomous Poetry Autonomous Poet | 186 |
5 Superstition and Experiment | 269 |
CONCLUSION | 277 |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 293 |
NOTES | 295 |
INDEX | 327 |
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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter Timothy Steele,Clara Gyorgyey Vista previa limitada - 1990 |
Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter Timothy Steele,Clara Gyorgyey Vista previa limitada - 1990 |
Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter Timothy Steele Vista de fragmentos - 1990 |
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Página 54 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written.
Página 60 - HD', Richard Aldington and myself decided that we were agreed upon the three principles following: 1. Direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subjective or objective. 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
Página 60 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 54 - The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...